News tagged with funhouse mirror
Can you see me now? Flexible photodetectors could help sharpen photos
Jan 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Distorted cell-phone photos and big, clunky telephoto lenses could be things of the past. UW-Madison Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma and colleagues ...
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Discoveries in the Deep
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Scientists from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have been using Pavilion Lake as a testing ground for the future human exploration of other worlds.
Words, gestures are translated by same brain regions, says new research
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 09, 2009 |
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Your ability to make sense of Groucho's words and Harpo's pantomimes in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions of your brain, says new research funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication ...
Squeak, squeak -- can you hear me now?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 09, 2009 |
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What do you get when you cross a mouse with poor hearing and a mouse with even worse hearing? Ironically, a new strain of mice with "golden ears" - mice that have outstanding hearing as they age.
15,000 reasons to worry about invasive species
Nov 09, 2009 |
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A day at the beach in Wisconsin's North Woods didn't used to go like this. Candy Dailey spent a Fourth of July holiday splashing with grandkids on the sandy shore of Lake Metonga when she felt a nasty sting on her foot.
NIST test proves 'the eyes have it' for ID verification
Technology / Computer Sciences
Nov 04, 2009 |
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The eyes may be the mirror to the soul, but the iris reveals a person's true identity—its intricate structure constitutes a powerful biometric. A new report by computer scientists at the National Institute ...
NRL sensor provides critical space weather observations
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 03, 2009 |
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Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., aboard an United Launch Alliance Atlas V launch vehicle, Oct. 18, 2009, the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by NRL's Space Science ...
Snows Of Kilimanjaro shrinking rapidly, and likely to be lost
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain .
For gay and straight men, gauging facial attraction appears to operate similarly
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study from a researcher at Harvard University finds that gay men are most attracted to the most masculine-faced men, while straight men prefer the most feminine-faced women.
Seeing is relieving: New hope for chronic pain sufferers
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 29, 2009 |
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An f1000 evaluation examines how pain relief improves greatly when the sufferer can actually see the area where the pain is occurring.
Mirror images united: Simultaneous binding of both enantiomers of a drug to an enzyme
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the binding pockets of enzymes their natural binding partners fit exactly. The principle by which many pharmacological agents work also relies on the fact that these substances fit exactly into the pockets ...
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